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The Sprint SIM card shuffle! Everyone on three!

This is part rant and part question.

Can anyone point me to a thread on everything A to Z with Sprint SIM cards?

I bought an unlocked s8+ on CL which turned out to be a great deal. Unlocked with July receipt from Best Buy. The SIM card from my unlocked Moto X Pure wouldn't work. A third party Sprint store which by far wasn't a winky-dink location didn't have the right SIM card for me. I run to Best Buy and they didn't have the right SIM card.

Does T-Mobile know what they're getting themselves into? I'm assuming a corporate store will have a SIM that will work on this device but I wouldn't put anything past Sprint. What is the deal with this company and multiple SIM cards? I had the same issue when I dabbled with a V20. The Moto X Pure card wouldn't work in it either.

Can anyone point me to a thread on everything A to Z with Sprint SIM cards?

I bought an unlocked s8+ on CL which turned out to be a great deal. Unlocked with July receipt from Best Buy. The SIM card from my unlocked Moto X Pure wouldn't work. A third party Sprint store which by far wasn't a winky-dink location didn't have the right SIM card for me. I run to Best Buy and they didn't have the right SIM card.

Does T-Mobile know what they're getting themselves into? I'm assuming a corporate store will have a SIM that will work on this device but I wouldn't put anything past Sprint. What is the deal with this company and multiple SIM cards? I had the same issue when I dabbled with a V20. The Moto X Pure card wouldn't work in it either.

The correct sim for S8+ is 416Q (either of SIMOLW416Q or SIMGLW416Q will work). I have an S8+ by the way.

This sim is also included in the BOOST Mobile BYOD Sim kit which you can buy at Best Buy.

Or you can order the bare sim from Twigby for $2.99.

The concept of sims is different with Sprint. The sim stays with the phone. You can move a phone between all Sprint MVNO's and Sprint itself without ever touching the phone's sim, without the annoying need to continually run around obtaining new sims. Sims never expire and are not specific to a given MVNO or subsidiary. With a universal phone (like you got) you do have to buy a sim one time, it is true. All Sprint phones come with the right sim already and it never needs to be touched. It is just pros and cons, that's all.

I think everyone knows T-Mo will be flushing most of Sprint's joke of a network down the toilet and assimilating the LTE parts into their own modernized infrastructure that can handle advanced 1990's functionality like swapping a SIM card.

I think everyone knows T-Mo will be flushing most of Sprint's joke of a network down the toilet and assimilating the LTE parts into their own modernized infrastructure that can handle advanced 1990's functionality like swapping a SIM card.